Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, (14 September 1868 – 19 December 1958), known as Viscount Sudley from 1884 to 1901, was an

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peer and soldier.

Biography

Lord Arran was born in

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, the only son of Arthur Saunders Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, and Lady Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn, daughter of

Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn (20 February 1816 – 12 August 1854), was a British soldier and Conservative politician. Background Born at Carlton Gardens, London, Jocelyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of R ...

, the eldest son of

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Emma Elizabeth Thoyts Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949), aka Mrs. John Hauntenville Cope, was an English palaeographer, amateur historian, and genealogist. Biography Emma Elizabeth Thoyts was born in Bryanston Square, Marylebone in Middlesex on 8 July 1860, the ...

, ''History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment)'', Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select, ISBN 978-1-37645405-5, pp. 213–4, 318. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Royal Berkshire Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, on 14 May 1887 and was promoted to

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on 17 November 1888. He then transferred from the part-time

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to the

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, becoming a second lieutenant in the

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on 20 November 1889, promoted to lieutenant on 13 April 1892, and to

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on 30 March 1895. Following the outbreak of the

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in late 1899, he joined the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment for service in the war. He sailed for

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in the SS ''Narrung'' in early February 1900, and was the commanding officer in charge of the various cavalry drafts on board the ship, a total of 200 men. For his service in the war, he was promoted a brevet

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in November 1900. He later fought in the

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and achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a Justice of the Peace for

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and

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, a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and

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and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Donegal from 1917 to 1920. He was made a

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in 1909 and admitted to the

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in 1917.

Family

Lord Arran married, firstly, at

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church on 16 August 1902, Maud Jacqueline Marie Beauclerk van Kattendyke, daughter of Huyssen van Kattendyke, 3rd Baron van Kattendyke, of

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. They had two sons: * Arthur Gore, 7th Earl of Arran (1903–1958), died by suicide nine days after succeeding to the title * Arthur Strange Kattendyke David Archibald Gore, 8th Earl of Arran (1910–1983) he married Fiona Colquhoun on 11 June 1937. They have two sons: **

Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran Arthur Desmond Colquhoun Gore, 9th Earl of Arran (born 14 July 1938), styled Viscount Sudley between 1958 and 1983, is a British peer and Lord Temporal in the House of Lords, sitting with the Conservative Party. Early life Lord Arran was born ...

(born 14 July 1938) he married Eleanor van Cutsem on 28 September 1974. They have two daughters. **The Honorable Philip Gore (born 22 March 1943) After her death in 1927 he married, secondly, Lilian Constance Quick, daughter of Joseph Quick, in 1929. Lord Arran died on 19 December 1958, aged 90, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son

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. Lilian, Lady Arran, died in 1961.

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